On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:17:52AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >Hi Steve! > >On 6/10/19 4:37 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 1. Update the docs to mention this - this is a new thing needed to >> get netboot working with Buster. It's *currently* inconsistent, >> as ia64 and armhf (as non-SB arches) are still using the old >> prefix setting. For the sake of consistency (in docs etc.), I >> propose to also update the d-i build for those arches to use the >> same prefix. But I acknowledge that will break existing >> setups. :-( >> >> 2. Alternatively, we could tweak the netboot prefix setting as built >> by grub. I'm worried that this may also break things for some >> users. Do we assume (can we?) that all our grub netboot users are >> installer users (so we could use /debian-installer/$ARCH/grub)? >> If so, that might be a way to go. But is it a valid assumption? >> We'd be forcing all our grub netboot binaries to only sensibly >> work for d-i, and that worries me too. > >I don't have a strong opinion here regarding GRUB on ia64. netboot with GRUB >on ia64 is currently untested on ia64, so I'm fine with breaking changes as >long as the configuration is kept in sync - where possible - with the other >EFI architectures and in a working state.
ACK, thanks for the quick response. It was specifically ia64 that I was worried about here in (1) above, hence my deliberate CC. armhf in Debian has only very recently gained UEFI support, so there's no release history to worry about. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess
